Just had a lightbulb moment about Melania.

[pnwmom]

What if DT's big concern isn't about the American public finding out about Stormy, but about Melania having proof. What if he doesn't care about her finding out because she would be mad at him -- what if he has a clause in the pre-nup that relates to adultery. What if she would get much, much more money in a divorce if she can prove adultery?

What if the only thing holding her back from divorcing him right now is MONEY? And if Stormy proves her case, Melania can feel much more free to leave him?

Maybe that's why it was so important for him to maintain deniability that he didn't even sign the document.

[IluvPitties]

1. Donnie wouldn't have signed a prenup that goes against his interests.

Dude is a professional con man. Whatever they signed, he's the winner and she's the loser.

[pnwmom]

5. If he thought he could control the outcome -- and he always does --

then he might have been happy to sign a prenup that appeared to give her a substantial payoff if he violated the terms.

[IluvPitties]

7. $130000 + A free weekend at Mar-a-Lago.

[Stallion]

13. Probably, Unless Melania did not Have Effective Assistance of Counsel

Pre-nuptial agreements between parties in unequal bargaining positions can be overturned. In a situation involving a "multi-Billionaire" a court is likely going to investigate whether she entered into the agreement without duress, knowingly and without undue influence and after sufficient time to allow her to obtain effective assistance of counsel even if that means that Trump pay for her own attorneys to review the agreement before signing it. He defrauded the American people in failing to disclose the full extent of his financial holdings-you might just see a similar argument by a Divorce attorney. His attorneys could have screwed up the pre-nuptial agreement just as bad as Stormy's Non-Disclosure Agreement

[jberryhill]

18. Overturning a pre-nup at the cost of being deported is a gamble

[lindysalsagal]

20. Deportation would be the least of her worries if she crossed him.....IMHO.

[Hekate]

21. Melania is an American citizen; didn't you notice her at the voting booth with him...

...craning his neck to look at her ballot?

American citizens don't get deported.

[jberryhill]

22. So was John Demjanjuk

Reproducing with Trump is some kind of crime against humanity innit?

[BoneyardDem]

2. Thinking this through...

......you may have a truly valid point. Great angle, that seems plausible.

[poboy2]

3. This has been Sam Seder's speculation for a few weeks. Said so again on Chris Hayes tonight.

[herding cats]

4. I've heard this speculated and I'm not buying it.

He's a professional philanderer, she's a trophy wife and not his first. Their prenup favors his indiscretions and gives him leeway she doesn't have. It's not a fair deal where they're on even footing.

I'd bank on this as being true.

[flibbitygiblets]

11. Ditto and ditto

and ditto and ditto and ditto

If anything, their prenup says she let's him F---K anything he wants and she zips her lip or he gets the kid. or something equally awful.

[HipChick]

12. Yeah...not much of a lightbulb...everyone has been speculating this..

[PCIntern]

6. What if there's evidence that Mailordia is an

Eastern-bloc plant?

Really....what do we know about her past? We don't even have her papers from her immigration.

[IluvPitties]

8. That's plausible.

[JI7]

9. Trump isn't the type to have such a prenup. I think the reason she never divorced him

Is becausehe doesn't have much money that he could pay her where her lifestyle would be same or higher.

[ret5hd]

10. Melania is dt s handler...a seasoned pro.

When the indictments fly, hers is gonna be labeled “espionage”.

[Stallion]

14. Maybe Melania is Mueller's "Deep Throat"

[ret5hd]

15. That would put her higher on Putins list...

Than that spy in Britain.
Polonium or nerve gas would be her easy way out. And absolutely no where to hide. She would make Assange look like a social butterfly. I really doubt that’s the case

[blogslut]

16. I have been saying this but...

Someone here brought up the possibility this is about invalidating the NDA - which might open the floodgates to invalidate probably hundreds of past NDAs.

I am alomost positive the Stormy Daniels thing isn't about covering up the man's infidelity but about protecting the man's ass(ets).

[pnwmom]

17. Yeah, that's another thought I've had. Especially with regard to Katie Johnson,

who I'm sure has one.

[KelleyKramer]

19. Or if he has unprotected sex she gets a lot more $

I think you are right that it's more than just an affair he is scared about. There is something more that he doesn't want revealed.

[syringis]

23. Hi Pnwmom

I'm not sure he has any money left. I can't help thinking he is drowning in an ocean of debts...